The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-05-21
BILL ARP's LETTER.
He MAKES A FLYING VISIT TO THE
OLD DOMINION.

When travel I get lonesome and
homesick. I would like to have
sbout three boys and three girls to
travel with me. They would enter
tain me and / would take care OF
them, and we would have the best
kind of time. i'll was rich would
take my wife and children every
time. If I look at mountains and
rivers and valleys and the ocean and
big ships it is melancholy pleasure
Just because / am alone. But chill
dren don't always behave when
away from home and that spoils
everything. Some children behave
worse when company come than any
other time. / saw a lady get OH the
train as / went to Atlanta. She had
three children with her and the boy
wanted q seat next to the window SO
that he could look out, but his mother
wouldn't let him and he sat up a
whine and kept 1t up for her morti.
fcation. She endured it awhile and
then said, II told you before we
started that you would do exactly
that way" and she grabbed him
furiuusly and slapped him right and
left and nauled him bad, and we had
a regular battle for awhile. Well
that was bad, very bad, bad on both
sides, and when / expressed my sym
pathy for the boy and told Mark
Hardin that it was the best part of
the ride to look out of the window,
Mark said, swell, that's so, but these
children are an awful worry. I've
just come from place where there
are six under ten years, and their
poor mother has t0 cook for them and
sew for them aud worry with them
all day and part Of the night, and |
looked at and watched her until |
had liked to have cried. l am sorry
for them, / amj and they don't get
half the sympathy they are entitled
TO-" That's 80, exactly so," said II
'sbut X the mother Of tliis boy had
have done more whipping at home
she would have less to do on the
cars" "Oh they don't wantto whip
them at ALL" said Mark, "and she
wouldn't have whipped him here If
we hadn't been about. These moth
ers are long suffering and have hard
life, but that is their nature, and l
reckon 1t Is all right or it wouldn't
have been s0."
That night I went to the opera
house to hear the orators Of the anti
coercion meeting, and | tell you they
made the blood tingle and the turkey
bumps rise as they talked about the
wrongs Of Ireland. Igot enthusiastic
myself and felt Ike fighting, and
when I came away and told IN old
ffiefd about 1t he smiled and said:
"Mell, I'm not bothering myself
$Boqt matters 90 far away. Them
Irish are q very clever people,
know; but when we was being coerc-
ed down here they didn't bother
themselves about us. And besides,
| fsckSh there are two sides to this
48Sstion, for old England is mighty
splid government and is generally
fight. hestands mighty high among
the nations Of the earth. There are
two sides, l reckon-two sides," and
he left me bewlldered.
The next morning took the cars
for Norfolk, and 1t was long, hot
and dusty ride. l bought some pa
pers Of the newsboy and read every
thing In them, even TO the advertise.
ments. When I got to DR.. Talmages
last sermon I stopped at that para
graph whore he says that modern
literature ID the curse Of the age, and
that ninety.nine out Of every one
hundred books that were printed
ought to be- burned, and 1t would
make ! bon6re whose flames would
reach 70 heaven; that you could
hardly hnd ! moral instructive book
10 any bookstore or on any parlor
table Or Oh the railroad, or In charge
ofany nswsboy.
60 thought that I would see this
nswsboy On the train and take an
invoice.
! found that he had. Moody ana
Sam Jonse and Ouida aud Augn
Conway md Haggard. Then there
"a Napolson and Marie Louise ana
Childfsn's storjss and Instruction ~
ths Young and ! woman's 6scr'ilos
and ) Dachslos's Blunder and the
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